Hanger or rack.



F. WHITE.

HANGER 0R RACK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 4. 1911.

Patented Aug'. 1,1916.

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F. WHITE.

HANGER 0R RACK.

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WITNESSES: k4 YINVE T0 7 72m BY ATTORNEYS HANGER 03 BACK.

Application filed March 4, 1911.

7 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK WHITE, a citizen ofthe United States, residingat Glen Ridge, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hangers or Racks; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to figures of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention herein described consists of a rack or hanger that isdesigned to provide means for suspending articles, preferably kitchenutensils, which are provided with a headed shank.

The hanger is made in any length and can be provided with any number ofslots of peculiar structure and disposed in a manner to provide apositive and safe means for suspending articles with the headed shanksto cooperate with the slots.

The invention consists also of a pocket which forms a receptacle forkettle covers and the like, and is made of one piece with a bead oroff-set which is provided with the slots, which slots are key-holeslots.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a front view of a hanger of my improved construction. Fig. 2is a section on line 2, 2, in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspectiveof one end of the hanger shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section takenthrough one of the key-hole slots shown in Fig. 3, showing the method ofplacing and removing the articles from the hanger.

The hanger is made preferably from a single sheet or strip of materialsuch as metal, and I illustrate in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, a structure inwhich the metal is bent to form the front wall 10, which wall is inclined and when fastened to a suitable support 10 forms a pocket 11 forkettle covers 12 and similar things. The metal is bent into side walls13 and end tabs 14. The end tabs form means for fastening the device tothe support 10 preferably by nails 15. vVhere the bottom edge of thewall meets or nearly meets the support 10 it is bent to form a bead oroff-set which has a top 16, a front 17 and a bottom 18. I provide theSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

Serial No. 612,358.

front and the bottom of the off-set with keyhole slots 19 which havetheir enlarged ends 20 in the front 17 and the narrow end of the slotterminating in the bottom 18.

The articles to be suspended, whether they be kitchen utensils, tools,or other articles, are each provided with a screw, or pin or any shank21 that has a head 22 on it smallenough to pass through the enlarged end20 of the key-hole slot and too large to pass through the main part ofsaid slot. The article with its headed shank is inserted as shown inFigs, where a shows the position of the article when it is beinginstalled or removed, and 6 shows the position when the article issuspended. The front 17 of the bead is preferably arranged at anangle'so that the handle of the article, with its shank 21, must belifted well up before it can be removed, thereby making it impossible toaccidentally knock off the articles by brushing against them. Theangular arrangement of the front 17 has another function which is todraw the inner edge 23 of the bottom 18 away from the support 1O so thatthe articles, such as the handle 24, which are sometimes of largediameter, can be suspended without coming in contact or interfering withthe wall or support 10". The

angular arrangement of the front 17 is not, however, essential.

This structure provides a safe device in which the suspended articlesare not apt to be jolted or swung from the holder. The hanger is soconstructed that when secured to a door or in other positions where itmight be moved or stopped suddenly, or in situations where the utensilsor tools suspended from the holder might be hit to swing them, the headof the shank will engage the angle formed at the juncture of the frontand the bottom of the bead, which would act as a fulcrum, and theliability of the handle to swing from-the slot is very remote. It willbe noted that in order to remove the tool with the headed shank from theslot, it must be swung up to at least 90 degrees from its suspendedposition, as shown at a in Fig. 4, in order to remove it.

In Fig. 6 is shown a circular bead which is bent out and then downwardlyand inwardly to form a front 25 and a bottom 26. This constructionprovides a device that is smooth and without points particularly at theplaces where the articles are suspended,

and there is little or no chance for clothing to become caught on thebead or off-set and there is no chance of injury or cutting by engagingthe edges of the bead, since the rounded or projecting beads actsomewhat as fenders.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A hanger forholding devices with headed shanks, said hangers comprising a sheet ofmetal formed into a bead having a front which extends downwardly and outwardly and a bottom which extends downwardly and inwardly, the front andbottom having a key-hole slot vertically arranged therein with its largeend uppermost, the front and bottom being oined so as to form a sharpangle intermediate of the ends of the slot, the distance from the angleto the enlargement of the slot being greater than sheet of metal formedinto a head with a front and bottom meeting at a sharp angle, and akey-hole slot extending from said angle part way into the front and partway into the bottom, the slot having its large end uppermost, thedistance from the angle to the enlargement of the slot being greaterthan the length of the shank from the article to the head.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my handthis 3rd day of March 1911.

FRANK WHITE.

Witnesses VVM. H. CAMFIELD, M. A. J OHNSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

It is hereby certifiedthat in Letters Patent No. 1,192,965, grantedAugust 1,

1916, upon the application of Frank White; of Glen Ridge, New Jersey,for an improvement in Hangers or Racks, an error appears in the printedspecification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, strike out lines105-107, and that the said Letters Patent should be read with thiscorrection therein that the same may conform to the record of the casein the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 5th day of September, A. D., 1916.

F. W. H. CLAY, Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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